Pedro Afonso, 18, granted the 23rd Medal to Portugal in U-20 Europeans, the best national result so far at the Ratinan.S stadium.
Portuguese athlete Pedro Afonso won the silver medal on Saturday in the 200-meter final of the U-20 Europeans in Tampere, Finland, reaching the first national podium on the third day of competitions.
Continental leader of the year in the distance, the sprinter spent 20.85 seconds, against 20.77 by Italian Diego Nappi, first classified, and 21.03 of Spanish Oriol Sánchez, third, running above 20.74 fixed in the early afternoon as the best mark in the semi-finals.
“I am not happy with the result, I was very fond of having won. I am very happy for my shape and [o nível] As I arrived here. I started the season after the winter season, because I injured myself in last year’s European, and it is great to return and be feeling fast again, hitting personal records, but I was one place of what I wanted, “noted the athlete of Benfica, quoted by the Portuguese Athletics Federation (FPA).
Pedro Afonso, 18, granted the 23rd Medal to Portugal in U20 Europeans -ninth silver and first in speed races -in the best national result so far at the Ratinan Stadium, where Stela Fernandes has hit the Luso record of the echelon in the 3,000 obstacles.
When eighth, with 10.24.74 minutes, Sporting’s corridor removed almost two seconds at 10.26.45 fixed by Barbara Neiva in 2019, renewing her best personal brand in the distance for a second time in two days in the main continental sub-20.
Another new Lusa brand in the under-20 was established at the 4 × 400 female relay, with Cristina Neves, Clara Martinha, Adimizia Andrade and Margarida Oliveira to timet 3,42.06 minutes, below 3,43,68 obtained by Alexandra Pina, Maria José Valamatos, Maria João Valamatos and Carla Sacramento for about 36 years, in August 1989.
The female quartet had the 13th best time and was in the qualifiers, such as the men’s team in the 4×100, which featured Pedro Afonso in the second route, but was no more than the ninth place, just below the eight of access to the final, with 40.72 seconds.
In the remaining finals of the day, Tiago Jorge was 12th place in the 3,000 meters, with 8.49.57 minutes, while Isa Ferreira was 15th in the 10,000 meters march, thanks to the personal record of 47.41.95, and Isabel Luís was disqualified after 5,600 meters of race.
Natacha Candé finished the first day of heptatlo in fifth position, with 3,418 points, of which he obtained 973 in the 100 barriers (ninth, 14.04 seconds), 800 in 200 (16th, 25.97), 941 in heel (third, 1.77 meters) and 704 in the weight launch (with 12.65), followed by the events, followed by dardo and dardo events. 800 meters.
On Sunday, Portugal will also have Tiago Machado in the final of the 3,000 obstacles, which headed as the first of the athletes qualified by times, after taking almost eight seconds to the previous personal record to close the ‘socks’ with 8.55.59 minutes, in sixth place in the overall classification, away from Leonardo Oliveira, only 26th. with 9.23.71.
Iara Vacondeus did not advance in the 100 meters barriers, as it was 27th in the qualifiers, after a 14.07 second mark on the penultimate day of the 28th edition of the Athletics U-20 Europeans, which began on Thursday and close on Sunday in Tampere.
